Mayor Kincannon will meet with the Mayor’s HR Working Group as this committee of City employees and a member of the City’s Civil Service Merit Board (CSMB) continues looking at ways to enhance human resources services while simultaneously strengthening the Civil Service merit system.

The City’s former personnel department was combined with the CSMB in the 1980s for budgetary reasons. The discussion on re-establishing a Human Resources Department began under former Mayor Madeline Rogero. The aim is to improve the City’s recruitment and retention of talent and to enhance employee and supervisor growth through training and career development services.

Restoring the City’s HR functions to its own department would also enable the Civil Service Merit Board to focus on its core mission – assuring that personnel actions continue to be made solely on the basis of merit.

All are invited and welcome to attend this 4 p.m. public meeting on March 5, 2020 at the Public Works Service Center, 3131 Morris Ave.

Anyone needing a disability accommodation to attend should contact the City’s ADA Coordinator, Stephanie Cook, at [email protected] or 865-215-2034. For an English interpreter, contact Title VI Coordinator Tatia M. Harris at 865-215-2831.